Show SENATOR CANNON alis speech on the export bounty hse tribune did not do him justice the senator acquitted himself 1 bobly and held his own against the protection gold bug combination mr cannon mr president I 1 send to he 11 and aek the secretary to read a proposed amendment to the pending tariff bill amendment intended to be proposed by mr baucon to the bill 11 K to provid revenue for the and to encourage the industries ot thy united states and from and after fifty days from rabe passage of this act there shall be paid out of moneys in the treasury of the united states not otherwise appropriated to any exporter ot wheat or wheat floar rye or rye flour corn ground or UD ground colton bops or tobacco produced wholly in the unite elates and exported by sea frum any port in the united to any port of any other country the following export bounty by way ot an equalization to atie benefits of this act to encourage the industries of the united state to wit Ten cents per bushel on wheat 60 cents per barrel on wheat flour 10 cents per bushel on rye 60 cents per barrel on flour 5 cents per bushelon corn 10 cents per cental on corn ground 1 centner cent per pound on cotton 2 cents per pound on hops per pound on tobacco and all pay of under this act aall be bade upon negotiable vouchers issued by the collector ot customs at the port of clearance upon presentation at the treasury or any sub treasury of the united states and the secretary of the is hereby charged with making nd enforcing bach regulations as ma be necessary for the full protection of he exporters and of the government ac the true intent and meaning law mr cannon mr I 1 do not rise at thie time to antagonize the pro active tariff principle nor shall I 1 occupy attention of the senate bt this late hour in the afternoon in any general or detailed criticism of toe bill has been presented here on the contrary the proposition of the is directly in the in protective principle and ito equitable application to the people of the united states it was with ereah upon an examination of the I 1 found that the great class of our population who have from the be onty supported the pro party by their votes but have the protective principle by their industry the be binning of its operation were in large pieree rie ree excluded from any of ita benefits it say to supply a very patent comeion om eion from the measure as it now stands that ibbe amendment is proposed bcd will be advocated here until a vote shall be taken inerson in ereon the bill as it ie offered today affords no protection to agricultural staples there h remaining I 1 presume no advocate ot abe protective tariff system who ill contend that in this bill with import duties there is afforded any protection or benefit of increased price rising from import duties upon any of commodities of which WB export our karplus ear plus nor are there remaining t the dregent time in alie of protection many men who will contend and none who will prove that the indeed protection afforded to the farmer by the tariff on manufactured booda compensation to him for the vait cott entailed upon lim in carrying the protective tariff system upon manu the day was mr when the american firmer with free soil to all with the most advanced agricultural i machinery known in the world coald pay the cost of hie production but would carry the weight of the great of this country but a new corid condition has aligen there are L ye areas ot aeri cultural land opened lathe steppes of russia in argentina i nd the hungarian the peon of south american countries today have i machinery only one year the oot oo t advanced in use in aho united t stales and the producer of staples in f america must sell in competition these lands it has became apparent to all thoughtful and certainly it ie known to all who lav any direct connection with the agricultural industry of the united states th atthe farmer not and the who reads him well know that the farmer will not much longer bear thie lurden thre are three remedies mr president aee and the right remedy ie a restoration reet oration of money condition by which we will get a worlds particularly beneficial to abe producer particularly to the present situation in the united states bat I 1 venture to y each remedy will not ba darted by this congress I 1 will 1 proposed hero the second remedy and one which I 1 as a believer la p election would be ready to accept rather than to hold to and vote for an inequitable bill would be absolute free tade by which the farmer buy as cheaply as he is corn polled to beell and that remedy this Cone reea will t erek enforce there remains then hut the abird the application of an exeor bounty which ahall in measure rive restitution to the farmer for the higher which he is compelled to pa in protected markets no proposition bated upon abe declara lion ol 01 equal protection to all the in adny ne of the united la complete nor can here be successfully made a t nneka it aites 10 the porter 1 staples from the states an equivalent beDell tto t riven to the manufacturer y ot an amport anty jal 2 cente a dpn wheat 1 a delusion and a re the farmr ot the I 1 cited states gets no benefit from ii the ion ot dav apoi cotton it that to the cot ion ducer the imposition of a duty on rye is of no val oe to um fanner of the united mates every other protected industry has direct benefit from thia tariff because where we do not produce in the united states for our own consumption aad a quantity considerable in extent or export the import cluty eferves as a means whereby the local producer can enhance the price tu the local consumer coo sumer the testimonials in behalf proposition some of the and best statesmen the united has bad have bren its advocate hamilton and albert gallatin Gal litin awe voice to it hamilton went so far aeto say that every dollar c duty col for the protection manufactures should be given back to agriculture through the medium of an export bounta because it was inevitably taken from agriculture webster and ulay infer lly indorsed the proposition and the people ol 01 the united states are giving their approval to it now 1 am in receipt of communications from state and pomona grange shipping organizations boards of trade and clergymen all advocating that this prin pie snail be inaugurated at this thuie in behalf of equitable protection to the pro pie of the united Sta tesI ma david lubau who in recent years has been the unceasing advocate of taix principle among abe people has found within the baat eighteen eign teen months scarcely any opposition even among the laborers of the united states who at first imagined that the price of breadstuffs was to be increased to them by this means the rates are not excessive they are scarcely equal to the imposition of tariff upon manufactured roods the cost to the treasury ot the united states will not bo burdensome it we shall take out from the treasury and distribute amone the farmers of the united states the per annum which this system will cost based upon our exports of asri staples in fading june we will only auve given back to the channels of trade some portion of that surplus which the pending bill will e pile up in the treasury according to its advocates at the rates proposed and taking our exported during the year ending june the united states treasury would pay for wheat end wheat floer sent abroad annually for rya and rye flour for cotton for hops and tor tobacco the immediate benefit to the farmer derived from the treasury of the united state would not be at ail for this all vely small expenditure to thai be would receive for these staples more than in higher arices than he now receives it is true that this would increase the price of bread studa to toe consumers in the cities but under the declaration made here today that with higher prices the people will be more able to buy we will have a larger consumption nf wheat and wheat hoar and other agricultural staples in abe cities of the country than we have now at the low price the senator from missouri inquired today it the remedy tor the peoples inability to purchase was to tax the people and make goods higher that they who could not buy today be able to buy at higher prices and he was answered that if were elevated by means of abe imposition of a tariff abe people would gel better wages and thus have the greater power to bev the product of western farms it id a noticeable fact that the consumption of staple agricultural has fallen united elates per capita this remedy under the argument will restore that consumption to its normal figure and if there be any virtue in protective tar afe this will give to every man bread enough because a sufficient tariff on woolen goods will give him doties enough mr butler mr president the senator from utah eaid he wae in favor of about export duty on wheat at 10 cents a bushel that will raise the price of every bushel of wheat whether exported or consumed at home that much will it not mr cannon certainly it will mr butler then or an of which abe government would pay out in the shape 0 an export bounty the wheat farmere of the country would get their protection of sixty or seventy million bollara do llara would they not mr cannon they bald i there bo adv truth in the protective p mr Butler That would be a very good investment mr cannon it woold be a very good investment if it were to be made in behalf of any manufacturing industry or or any trust in the unite states but anything in behalf of the farmer ie looked upon with acorn ind is considered a doubtful investment by the legislature of the united states mr sewell will the senator allow me to ask him where this will come from in what schedule would our friend from mr aidrich put it where are you going to raise it mr cannon mr president accord inato the statements made concerning thial bill hi ilg friend it will raise a to enable the treasury of the united states to bear thia comparatively ively small charge if it shall not under the ordinary expenditures of the government I 1 conid recommend that congress limit the amount of mono paid tor armor plate to an honce fidure end the amount of miney paid oat for other expenditures to an economical econom icil blaip and thereby the treasury will have enough mean with which to discharge this debt of honor in addition mr pendent Pel dent it is a very poor argument when you have been robbing some man for bur years and be altee astee you for justice to eay that yott propose to rob him of more and euy do not know where you are boine to get the money with which to restore that which yon have bously 1 it ie the very arst duty nf abe of the united states to provide bill which ceball not only be honest in ite present application but hibb sall pay back some portion of ahat which has been taken from the of the orthis land I 1 be bevi we can cut abe billion dollar ex ot thia country down to for each congress and alia t will provide ample means with which to dirc barKe he obligations raised by this j I 1 voted mont cheerfully tor war chips for armament for all kinde ol 01 ex 1 turee desired by the eastern depre Benta tives and senators in congress but rather than to eave abe farmer of united stacee much longer without I 1 would be willing that we abound skip two or three years ia the ordering of war I 1 would both the oar negie and armor works I 1 closed dona alanto eee a million farine bold out in the united states I 1 think mr president that if we ahall adopt abi amendment and if the house of representatives ahall agree to it abe wise financiers connected with the finance committee of this body and the ways and means committee of the house of will devise a plan whereby without taking 1 from the necessary appropriations or gnipa of war and other proper and sacred expenditures of the government this little obligation to the armecie may bo met mr quay mr president mr cannon one word more with the permission of I 1 he senator mr quay I 1 beg pardon I 1 thought ibe senator bad concluded the vice president ane benator from utah will proceed mr cannon it we do not adopt an amendment ot this character or if we do not give to ibo farmer of the states aonie remedy he will at the first opportunity overturn this tariff the distinguished benator from rhode island mad a plea which I 1 believe every man in this chamber echoed as I 1 believe that same plea is echoed from every industrial center of the united states that we should so far as possible at this time that will en at ed by the shock of tariu revision every ano or three beare I 1 have talked with abu carmera in twenty states of the union since last fall and I 1 firmly believe that this tariff will DO longer endure than until the farmers of the united can have a chance to revise it at the polls il you do not give to them some portion of its benefits the farmer is bending a burden which he cannot carry longer liu baa been the backbone of the integrity of the united stacee but there conaw in the place of the free and independent farmer of this tenantry to reap sowed u rheu who receive their opinions from other s of giving their own independent voice at the pails aad in all their declare lions to their fellow men the senate of the united states can afford to be absolutely just I 1 belive the amendment be adopted on some future occasion when we reach schedule which with the permia eion of the senator from hew jersey and some other senators may be deemed the appropriate prop one to which to append this measure land perhaps other seil acors may make some cemarka at greater leneth mr tillman put it on the sugar schedule mr chandler may I 1 ask the senator from utah a question Mr Cannon certainly mr chandler 1 heard the decator speak of robbery a little abile ago with reference to the tariff doea the senator mean that tha farmer has been robbed all these years by the tariff Is that the senators argument mr cannon yes sir decidedly mr chandler when did the senator first think that the american tariff system was a robbery of the farmer t mr cannon just so soon as the sen ator pave sufficient attention to the subject to understand the truth 0 it I 1 advocated republican au tariffs as earnestly and ae faithfully in my humble way as he senator from new hamp hire and I 1 believed exactly in what I 1 taught I 1 believe in protective tariff system in the united states today because I 1 think that any nation which will not guard lie own parish and I 1 believe the world is engaged at this time in a fight the et which will ce the i of the teet if america doea not protect herself but I 1 am not any longer to advocate a system by which one portion of the population is taxed for the benefit ol 01 another portion of the population 1 think that it is unfair to cherish only one clasa and that the class which has already the most powerful of self protection it the senator from new will go across the plains of kaneai ae I 1 have and across the plains of nebraska if he will fee the people there who toll from early mourn till dewy eve seeking to buildup those state if le will witness their struggles if he will eee farms abandoned because men cannot pay the mortgages thereon I 1 believe in him sufficiently to think he willrowe will cowe back and bay that thia bill is robbery of the american farmer mr mr president I 1 sympathize with the achs to whom abe senator bas referred I 1 have aldaya believed that a properly adjusted tariff would faela them instead of harming them but I 1 did not know until today that abe senator who has advocated the tariff all this time thought all the while diat it was robbery of his people mr cannon eliy mr president the fraai new hampshire is scarcely nir I 1 stated atia t in the guilelessness of my soul baini republican I 1 went out and idea of protective barj ta rj I 1 never was brought quite close to concerning it before e I 1 am today heretofore I 1 it on abe advocating it in general terms 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